Local residents take advantage of warrant clearing program
More than 300 Santa Clara County residents were able to spend
Business community hopes for ‘compromise’ on signs
GILROY—The Gilroy business community’s leader is hoping for a compromise on the city’s law governing advertising signs and banners, in light of the recent denial of a request to open up communication lines with city staff.
Age restrictions, renting limitations at the Village Green Cottages?
Proposed amendments circulating the halls of the Village Green senior living community have residents of the cottages talking, and some say they’re concerned the new rules—if approved Nov. 20—could restrict their ability to rent or sell in the future.
GECA student named National Merit Scholar semifinalist
Alexander Spaeth, a senior at the Dr. TJ Owens Early College Academy - a smaller high school located on the Gavilan College campus at 5055 Santa Teresa Blvd. - was named a semifinalist today in the 58th annual National Merit Scholarship Corporation.
Edward W. Rife
Edward W. Rife, 79, died Aug. 20, 2009, at his home in Morgan Hill. Born May 20, 1930, in Cairo, Ill., to William E. and Mary E. Rife, he served as a pilot in the 48th Fighter Interceptor Squadron in the United States Air Force from 1952 to 1956. He was a graduate of Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo. He worked in aerospace engineering at Lockheed at Vandenberg AFB in the 1960s, United Technologies in South San Jose in the late 1970s and again at Lockheed Missiles and Space in Sunnyvale in the 1980s before retiring in 1992 to ride his bicycle across the United States with his wife Joanne, to whom he was married for 55 years.
